skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not 'for effect'. It's the legal description of
use of a firearm by police/military.

That's what I meant by "for effect." They were already able to shoot you.

Ergo a reminder that the military or police can shoot you is for effect; it does not represent a change to the status quo.
Any ”disagreement“ is by people that weren’t there. There were real bugs that needed real fixin’. Would it have been the end of modern civilization if those bugs didn’t get fixed? Probably not, but it would have been a real mess. I was at Microsoft at the time, and waiting by the phone for something we missed to blow up. A whole lot of Age of Empires on 12/31/99-1/1/00, but the phone didn’t ring once, but only because of the ass busted many months prior.
These are just binomial trees, which might be familiar to those who know their classic data structures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_heap
Thanks - good advice I'll give this a try.
Europe is doing no such thing. They are preparing for physical war by drastically increasing military spending [1], and some countries are already sending out "be ready for war" information sheets. [2]

[1] https://www.euronews.com/2024/04/22/military-spending-in-wes...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4zwj2lgdo
It was on everyone’s lips for a few years, to the point that it had become the placeholder for the entire meme.

The short version is that there is a shortage of skilled workers that absolutely requires immigrants to fill the gaps. However when you look around there isn’t really a shortage; people just aren’t willing to work for little pay. The English term implies that there is an actual shortage.

It might please you to know just how much English other languages are peppered with.
Online applications make it easier for people to apply to jobs in a different city without having to drive across the country just to hand the HR a PDF hardcopy. Mail (physical mail, not e-mail) and fax (yeah, I know, who still uses fax) applications wouldn't suffer from this though.
Wouldn't that mostly matter if you're really navigating in your source code via the tree panel? In the post-Textmate days, fuzzy file finders seem to be all the rage whether you're using vim or IDEs (or Sublime etc.). Or you go to definition/references immediately.

I mostly use the file navigation when exploring the structure, which I'm not doing that often.

And which I probably should do with a class browser anyways, which I used to do often in Eclipse, way back in time, but it seems that particular SmallTalk-ism isn't very popular in contemporary IDEs.
Why is it relevant to include that factor
I would have thought the one thing these ATS systems could do by now is filter the obvious garbage resumes.
And that is your right. Find someplace that honors your personal beliefs and give them your hard earned money. I will do the same, but at Costco.
People work to eat. You missed the point entirely. I refer you to my first post on this.
I've recruited for many roles in the UK for a very large tech employer (1000s of developers but not a FAANG).

With 20 years experience you'd get through our semi-automated processes and
get an interview if the skill sets and employment history matched - regardless of a university level experience.

Are you sure it's the degree that's holding you back?

I'm not advising you lie, as it's fraud, but just adding that over here it would be incredibly rare to ask for proof of academic qualifications from 20 years ago when recruiting such an experienced hire.

I myself have around 20 years experience, I have a degree but god knows where the certificate is and additionally the university who issued it no longer exists.

Although my degree is adjacent somewhat it is not in CS. I've never been asked to show it to anyone, never asked a hire for theirs either.
Austrians moving to Poland doing any specific job will pe paid exactly the same as the Polish. Similarly a Pole working a job in Austria is paid the same as an Austrian doing the same job.

The fact that there might be a wage difference between different countries might be interesting, but it us utterly irrelevant to the fact that there is a price difference between tickets sold for the exact same train. Not an Austrian vs. a Polish train -- literally the same actual train with the same finite, exact seats for sale.
If there's one thing I've learned from executive responses to COVID, it's that unless they are the founder with a personal relationship to the company, executives are short sighted sycophants to the market who hire short sighted sycophants.

It's all a sham. As long as they get paid in the short term they do not care about the long term. Also, if it cannot be measured trivially then it does not exist to them.
> Have you been fired in favor of foreign workers?

1) I work at a large company everyone in the US has heard of. When I walk in the public areas of the company or at lunch, it looks like we are based in Mumbai. There is no "diversity", it's one country in particular, which is India. (Funnily enough, this demographic isn't reflected in management)

2) I overheard the 4th level (above me) manager complaining to another manager that his department (he oversees the whole floor, let's say a bit under 100 employees) has 30+ open reqs, and HR has only given him a few resumes (unknown what time period this refers to). The last interview I gave was to an H1B who had an audio link in his earbuds to someone who feed him answers to my technical questions.

3) I have 20 years experience, yet this job pays the same amount I was making 10 years ago. There is effectively zero negotiation for salaries. They will happily let you go vs bargain.

4) A previous mega-corp I worked for, GE Healthcare in Wisconsin, looked like India on campus. Utter lack of diversity. I recently got a job solicitation from an Indian recruiter for $40/hr for C++ development at this location.

I think it's very clear that the cat's out of the bag about how to evade high-paying tech salaries. Set the parameters to discourage Americans from hiring, create a bottleneck so that your open reqs last longer, then use their extra-legal powers (unfettered access to congresspeople) to claim they are falling behind profitability, but if they just had those wonderful H1Bs everything will be ok.
I don't thin it is good or evil but neither do I subscribe to the instrumentalist view that it is a tool. It does grow with a deterministic force that is partly beyond human control. (Various mechanisms make it so in a large populace). So, I don't agree that it's "just a tool" either.
They feed into each other especially for anything that isn't a vanilla gate. Got a deeply ported SRAM with bypasses? That might fail synthesis if it is too choked by wire rules for the size of the cells so now it's banking time.
Yeah at that point I'd just go for another 10 year old car.

My last car was a Volvo S40, had really nice leather interior, nearly full option and cost me €2000.

I only had a few brake pads an a broken trunk cable to deal with (super common issue on this model), the latter I did myself for €40 in parts. Ran great for years. But yeah there's an element of luck also.

My previous car was an Octavia, that had more issues. Electric window broke and I replaced it all myself. But it was a pretty nasty job. Eventually the gearbox started whining and when I brought it to the shop it basically blew up. But it had served me 5 years at that point. Cost me €1200 to buy.
I did some work with his Greenarrays chip as a student. It was very limited and awkward to use but it could also operate on absurdly low energy, with very low overhead for waking up or almost completely powering down. At some point, we had a demo running some simple signals processing code off a homemade bleach battery, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could make something work off a bunch of lemons too.

This was over a decade ago (yikes) and I don't remember the exact numbers, but I do remember it used substantially less power than a comparable MSP430 microcontroller.

That seems pretty useful and impressive to me, especially given it was created by a very small team with limited funding.
I started using GNU Emacs in the mid 1990s. I like the ergonomics of the interface. It's muscle memory since long. I tolerated the LISP aspect.

In VS Code I use the "Awesome Emacs Keymap" extension by Yuichiro Tachibana (Tsuchiya):

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tuttieee...

What won me over? GH Copilot + the overall packaging. It just works. Good, polished UX. Emacs needs to catch up on this front.
Drop another billion is sort of the name of the game here.
From https://octopart.com/search?q=CYW43439&currency=USD&specs=0.

Indeed the lowest price $2.551 from Arrow has a MOQ of 5000 but Newark does have it for a promotional price of $2.73 for quantities as low as 1.

It’s not $2.5 but that’s why it was quoted as ~$2.5 in my reply, since it’s in the ballpark.
> "FMA" meaning "fused multiply-add". It's the unit that matters for synapse-equivalents.

Neurons do so much more than a single math operation. A single cell can act as an intelligent little animal on its own, they are nothing like a neural network "neuron".

And note that all neurons act in parallel, so they are billions times more parallel than GPU's even if the operations would be the same.
I mean compared to video streaming sites - Netflix and prime have vastly different libraries. If Spotify and Apple Music had different libraries to the same degree, id probably bounce between them both and be more price sensitive. The fact that Spotify (and apple and tidal) have the full catalog mean the network effect is likely to be my main decider.
I pay out of my own pocket for Intellij, in case I want to build something that could make money and because contemporary Java is pretty ergonomic and suitable for some prototyping.

But I also maintain a vim config for Java development, because in small projects and some small fixes it has a nicer integration with the shell and cli tools there. If you aren't going to do JavaFX, hairy debugging or non-trivial release management it's good enough.
A spinning top.
More that they described it as "very foreign" when it literally is not. The people who didn't live in Spain and Portugal!
Founder-led companies still have a shred of such a culture left.

Once founder ceo leave, it is an inevitable slide into decay.
Oh come on, that's ridiculous. I wasn't referring to a change in ability, but a change in culture. The modern culture of mathematics is getting worse in my opinion, and many feel the same. Besides, I don't even practice math any more...
I haven’t hired in years but I am surprised there aren’t AI agents that can intelligently rate the compatibility of resumes to your job posting
I see this as a combination of three forces at play: AI, WFH, and Skillset--all adding downward pressure to hiring talent in the U.S.:

1) While A.I. may now be only adding 10-20% of productivity gains, the rapid pace of improvement leaves open the possibility that tha gains can be soon much more than that. So, instead of scaling your company now, if you can afford to, wait out a bit and see where this goes.

2) Even though much of BigTech is clawing back WFH, startups aren't as much. And once you introduce WFH to your culture and processes, it is hard to reason with the idea that you should pay $200K/year for an engineer when it can cost you a fraction (possibly 20-50% of that) to hire them remotely from another country, when also nowadays most of these remote employees are more than willing to work in EST/PST timezones. This used to be the case before COVID, but now many more startups have accepted and adapted to the idea of WFH.

3) While advanced skillsets and deep experience is necessary in many (but not most) startups, and while these skills are more difficult to find in India or Pakistan, the reality is, for many, many tech companies, most of the work doesn't require top-notch skills. You don't need a top 99% percentile in frontend engineering skills for a 1-year-old "name whatever category" app. And with the recent rise of focus on profitability, frugality, and the difficulty in fund-raising, being cognizant of cost per talent is now a thing.

I think Elon and Vivek's comments are more nuanced than they are taken. Elon, given he's at the cutting edge of engineering, must be having difficulty hiring top-99.9%-percentile talent against BigTech, and wants to open the pool of these types of talent from elsewhere. I don't think he wants H1Bs for React Native engineers. I am interpreting his comments as "I want to suck-in all A.I. researchers into America".
NEPA doesn't govern any releases: that's done by the EPA under clean Air and clean water act.
My childhood was in Clear Lake (just outside of Houston, Southeast side, near the bay), I live in Richardson today.

And yes I do agree many suburbs aren't like this. They should be IMO, if we're going to keep building suburbs.
This App Store review makes Mubi sound promising:

"MUBI IS TERRIBLE!
*---- 6y ago • Nick2866
MUBI is terrible there's no good action or horror films it's crazy because almost all of the movies on the app I haven't even heard of and I'm a big movie buff. So just don't waste your time with MUBI just get Netflix or amazon prime."
Connecting to a CRMs and building a generative application is supported, think "Chatting with your CRM" or even doing more complex tasks like "Analyzing your CRM by generating dynamic data dashboards".

To interoperate with other systems, every generative app built in Hal9 also comes with an API. So whenever the CRM has new data, it can call Hal9 to process records or do other kind of actions. We've seen some customers using tools like Zapier in combination with Hal9 to do more complex triggers, say, support SMS and the like.

So short answer, yes! But we expect some integration to happen with other systems in the form of APIs and triggers.
The conspiracy theory angle I would go with is a little different.

Low interests rates fueled a startup boom into the 2010s, capturing that emerging industry within the U.S. economy. AI looks promising, but the best is yet to come, so there’s a chance to reprise the earlier success that we saw into the early 2010s.

High interest rates currently mean that failed startups (those established pre-LLMs) will more easily die off, and bad conditions for software engineering employment will re-align the tech workforce toward AI. If this is a strategy that is being enacted, then I’d expect to see favorable startup funding conditions again, such as low interest rates, within a few years, to make sure the U.S. captures the AI startup market. It’s just not time to do that yet, since we need to wait for a re-skilled workforce and for a better-developed picture of what a typical successful AI startup would look like in the late 2020s.

An economist might say that no conspiracy is required, that this is simply the invisible hand at work.
I suppose it varies from case to case. I've only done Austria<->Poland, with tickets bought from AT/CZ/PL.
The fact that those blind seems like precisely the reason they should be included. The public is diverse and has diverse needs. A monoculture of staff will fail to see the those needs and only meet a subset. Maximizing success requires finding those blind spots in your business, which requires diverse staff. In short, poor is not a culture by itself.
In the middle of fruitless multi-month job search, I manually view LinkedIn/indeed job sites daily and look for new positions, going through requirements, making sure I have the skills and experience (also helps with understanding if I need to upskill in certain areas), then look up the company, the industry it's in, etc. By the time I'm ready to apply to the position I know I'm interested in and a good fit for, there's a few hundred applications already (LinkedIn shows the count to the applicants). I'm like, how is this possible, it's only been 3 days?..

Well, that's how.
I was really impressed with the online presentation of EmacsConf 2024. Everything captured and published in org-mode: Transcripts, Comments, QA, Video links. Was really nice to peruse.
Fair, it’s probably incorrect to say there’s “no abstraction” in an ORM, maybe more precise to say it’s quite a leaky one. I’ve never seen an ORM used in the wild where you could actually avoid thinking about tables and columns and rows pretty frequently. But that’s admittedly armchair anecdotal.

In the small-to-medium scale cases I’ve seen, the main re-use you get for a particular mapping is when an object is used as a child node elsewhere. If it’s a one-off you’re essentially writing a bespoke shorthand wrapper for some custom SQL. Which may be a convenient shortcut or prettifier, but isn’t really functioning as an abstraction. Net net it seems like more overhead. Or like the real benefit is constraining database design to closely align with object design (which could be valuable but isn’t a function of abstraction).

This is all assuming code ownership across the stack. With a separate team managing data representation and handing reliable object contracts “over the wall” I could imagine a situation where the consumer gets to think purely in objects. I just haven’t observed that in practice. E.g. What if the contact has two address records? What if the number of purchase records exceeds the maximum result size? If things like that come up regularly enough, it’s worse when you’re waiting on a separate team to fix the leaks.
Maybe it's just the tvOS version that lacks the option I described? I was disappointed in Spotify on tvOS so I'm using Music there. I guess platform inconsistency is an another negative of Music.

And by "doesn't work" it just says "an error occured" and nothing helps. I've even reinstalled it. Judging by reddit posts about it, it's a common issue. (Its logs also provide 0 hints about the error it encounters.)
I just learned that Spotify apparently likes to charge you for Taylor Swift while their algorithm pushes their own AI generated music into your ear buds which costs them nothing. That's how CEOs sell a couple billion dollars of stock options. Question is... Are you gonna continue to support him/them/they? I'm not. I'm gonna go for a bike ride right now and leave the ear buds home and listen to the sounds all around me. Take care y'all.
> night trains will likely no longer win on CO2 emissions.

The comparison is more complicated though isn’t it? It isn’t a comparison with a plane, it’s a variable comparison with a plane, a taxi, and a hotel etc.
I think option A is actually part of their problem. Not because they lack revenue but because they are successful with it. You mention Copilot but VSC integrates with a lot of Microsoft owned cloud services as the “default” or “first class citizen”. I’m not sure why people would use the Azure extensions over the AZ cli, but they are obviously rather popular. It’s a lot like how Google search became the default search in a lot of products, except here it’s GitHub, Azure and so on.

On top of that they get some wild telemetry. Your privacy data is obviously safe, but the metadata they collect goes right down to your project structure. So Microsoft knows what sort of projects and in what sort of languages everyone uses. They know what you’re putting into your Azure cloud and they know if you’re not using Azure. I imagine these things are rather valuable to the biggest tech company in the world.

Obviously they’re going to focus their development on upselling Microsoft products to you. Which will only get worse as they succeed more and more. Because why wouldn’t an enterprise company do that?
My completely unscientific impression is that other services are making the effort to produce high-quality films and series, including Apple TV+ (Slow Horses, Silo, For All Mankind, Foundation, etc.), Max/HBO (Barry, Curb Your Enthusiasm, GoT, The Last of Us, etc.), FX (Shogun, The Bear, The Old Man, Fargo, etc.), and AMC (Better Call Saul, Breaking Bad, Mad Men, The Night Manager, etc.). Whatever you think of the quality of shows in those services, they at least show genuine effort to make things that don't suck.
And? Advanced nodes aren't really relevant to subtracting where it is from where it isn't. China is ideologically motivated to conquer Taiwan not economically.
I know that the Amish aren't against technology, but they are against most advanced forms. When it comes to power tools, they also engineer specific requirements so that the electricity they use can't be used for anything else. And when it comes to computers, a lot of them contract out the work so they don't have to be exposed to them.

When it comes to making decisions, I am pretty sure no one in modern society makes any choices when it comes to the net benefits, only the short-term gains. That's regardless of how much technical training they have. And the net benefits are mainly about the use, not how the thing works, so people could really indeed make such decisions if there were a governing body to do so.
Fast WYSIWYG tool for building and self-hosting professional documentation sites
Most corporate DEI programs are discriminatory but in invisible or hard to prove ways. And most who are affected don’t have the time or resources to investigate or fight them in lawsuits. That’s what we have laws against discriminatory practices based on race or sex. But the “E” in DEI is equity, which is equality of outcomes. Companies uphold that sort by discriminating through quotas for hiring or promotion. This is illegal but rampant.
Spotify is so playlist oriented, we need a button to turn a search into a playlist just to make search usable...
What's the special significance of being from Kazakhstan? How do they differ from other foreigners?
I've seen founder led companies also get derailed by this, usually after raising a large round and getting forced by VCs to put their buddies in management positions.
These 41 samples came from 24 unique products
Income alone is not a good measure.
> I am talking about being possible where we can make virtually anything directly from carbon in the air,

I really would like a citation for this, perhaps several. How do we make various metals from carbon from the air? How could we make the silicon for the solar panels? Lubricants for the wind turbines? Lithium for the batteries? Or will all batteries be made out of pure carbon?

Metal is required for industrial civilization. Even if it isn't, not everything could be made from just the gaseous elements in the air.

I really do love the idea that we COULD do that. If you're right, what I am doing is completely unnecessary. In that case, I will gladly accept that I am wrong.

But if I am right, then civilization will start to destabilize and we will have to give up advanced technology and I will also accept that and work towards making that a better future.

I may not be right all the time, and honestly, TRULY, hope that I am wrong....feel free to email of course if you ever want a deeper chat.
Get in better shape. It’s not the cliched start exercising in 2025. I’ve spent most of 2024 exercising just enough to get into and stay in what I call “quality of life” shape.

I let every part of my body deteriorate since Covid into late last year. I got tired doing everyday things and even lifting my suitcase from baggage claim had me gasping.

Now from a personal scale of “1” breathing heavy just walking to a “10” running a 5K without stopping. I’ve maintained at about 6 as far cardio, strength and flexibility.

I use to run 15k’s and be a part time fitness instructor and was at my personal “9”.

Second goal is to keep my work life balance and stay at peace with where my career is.